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 This coursebook has emerged from a series of seminar handouts and my notes from various readings, which I gradually collected as teaching material to be used in the one-term elective dialectology seminar I started as an experiment at the Department of English, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, in spring 2006. It immediately turned out that my initial conception that this topic is very much in demand among the students was right: the course continued to be considerably popular in the terms to come. It soon became evident that we needed a coursebook which suited both our purposes and the circumstances we were working under: a coherent text written for a non-native audience, available in Hungary, and meant to be covered in one term (cca. 12 weeks). That was the motivation driving me to start compiling this material at the beginning of 2007. Its construction has been just as gradual as the collection of its sources: a number of draught versions have been tested in subsequent classes, whose members I owe gratitude for being the involuntary guinea pigs. In addition, special thanks should go to Kinga Földváry, who enthusiastically supplied me with sample material from the very beginning, who took up the teaching for two terms when I was not around, and who, as a consequence, found herself one fine day in the role of tester and proof-reader for this text, too. I am also grateful to my reviewers, András Cser and Patrick Honeybone, for their invaluable comments, and a whole lot of people who sent me photos to be used as illustrations in the book, kindly relinquishing copyright: (in alphabetical order) Melinda Dickerson (Mount Rushmore), Zsófia Ferencz (U.S. Capitol), Orsolya Hubert (Ireland), László Kristó (Wales), Andrea Laczay (skyscrapers in San Francisco), Dávid Palatinus (Sydney Opera House, Parliament House in Canberra), Károly Pintér (Statue of Liberty, cable car in San Francisco), Csaba Seregélyes (Canada) (and a few others, whose photos could not eventually find their way into the final version). The rest of the illustrations and maps were produced by myself.
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Balogné Bérces Katalin: Beginner`s English Dialectology: An Introduction to the Accents and Dialects of English. Ad Librum, Budapest, 2008.
Balogné Bérces Katalin 1998-ban végzett az ELTE Angol nyelv és irodalom szakán, majd az ELTE Angol Nyelvészet Doktori Programján folytatta tanulmányait doktorandusz hallgatóként. 2006-ban summa cum laude minősítéssel védte meg "Strict CV Phonology and the English Cross-Word Puzzle" c. PhD értekezését, mely 2008-ban megjelent a VDM Verlag Dr. Müller kiadó sorozatában. Kétszer elnyerte a Magyar Állami Eötvös Ösztöndíjat, és 2003-ban három hónapos vendégkutatói státust kapott a londoni SOAS Nyelvészet Tanszékén. 2006-ban Szentgyörgyi Szilárddal közösen pályázatot nyert "The pronunciation of English" (Az angol nyelv kiejtése) címmel a HEFOP Bölcsész Konzorcium új alapképzési (BA) tananyagfejlesztési projektje keretén belül tankönyv (http://mek.oszk.hu/04900/04910/) és digitális tananyag elkészítésére.
This book provides an overview of the accents and dialects of the English language. Its primary target audience is advanced (especially BA) students of English, who have a pretty good command of (standard) English and some background knowledge of English pronunciation and grammatical terminology. The first half of the book surveys the major regional dialects of English, in comparison to the standard varieties, concentrating on pronunciation differences. Then the book takes the differences between Standard British English and Standard American English under scrutiny: besides pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar and spelling differences are also discussed. Each chapter concludes with questions and exercises for revision and practice, followed by lists of recommended further reading and electronic links, all meant to motivate the students to do further browsing and research.
